Comment 5 for bug 511267

[Backtrace on SUnOS]

$ bzr -Derror send -o test.patch .

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.MemoryError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/commands.py", line 853, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1055, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/commands.py", line 661, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run_direct(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/commands.py", line 665, in run_direct
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 122, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 156, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 5146, in run
    strict=strict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/send.py", line 133, in send
    public_branch, no_patch, no_bundle, message, base_revision_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/send.py", line 158, in _send_4
    base_revision_id=base_revision_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/merge_directive.py", line 571, in from_objects
    ancestor_id).encode('base-64')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/merge_directive.py", line 197, in _generate_bundle
    ancestor_id, s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/bundle/serializer/__init__.py", line 122, in write_bundle
    base_revision_id, out)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/bundle/serializer/v4.py", line 244, in write_bundle
    write_op = BundleWriteOperation(base, target, repository, fileobj)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/bundle/serializer/v4.py", line 273, in __init__
    bundle = BundleWriter(fileobj)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python/bzrlib/bundle/serializer/v4.py", line 51, in __init__
    self._compressor = bz2.BZ2Compressor()